Word: hosing
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...parliament is gradually learning how to behave. It has been two years since, by Obregon's orders, the fire-hose was turned on the assembled members...
These men are in a sense "kept" by the thousands, who wish to read what they write. But their golf hose are not bought by their indulgent parents. And their printing costs are not borne by second-hand clothing dealers and the subscriptions of those who unless they subscribe must remain in the darkest ignorance concerning their examinations in the Economics of Agriculture and their status on the ping-pong team...
...minimum of clothes and a maximum of cosmetics, head-decorations, fans and jewelry. It is, indeed, an alarming situation when our twentieth-century debutante comes out arrayed like a South Sea Island savage", says President Murphy of the University of Florida: "The low-cut gowns, the rolled hose and short skirts are born of the Devil and his angels, and are carrying the present and future generations to social chaos and destruction...
...press the unlucky fire-button which started all the excitement? What if Claverly Hall was not in flames, as some of the scurrying undergraduates fondly and audibly hoped? We have been generously treated to a free and frantic demonstration of the quite exciting efficiency of the fire-fighters and hose-hoisters of Cambridge, who late forbade two successive smokers in the poor old Union. If the impact of final examinations or the discreet and tinder-dry celebration of Class Day should somehow cause spontaneous combustion hereabouts, we know that they will be at hand...
Leaders of troops are hose fitted by superior training, knowledge or genius for the position. So many years at a military institution or a certain rank in some training corps does not make anyone even a non-com. It is the experience gained in preparatory regiments, in addition to natural or acquired ability, that wins high positions. Because a cadet has graduated from the R. O. T. C. he will not reach his goal, but because he has fitted himself sufficiently to be superior to those whom he leads he will. Since the leaders are the best men possible, whoever...